A longtime Clemson men’s basketball assistant coach is hanging up his whistle.
Dick Bender is set to retire, The Clemson Insider has confirmed.
The 2025-26 campaign marked Bender’s 14th season overall as an assistant. He has worked primarily with Clemson’s post players and with head coach Brad Brownell on the Tigers’ offense.
After serving as Clemson’s director of men’s basketball operations from 2010-14, Bender returned to the program as an assistant coach for the Tigers in the summer of 2016. He worked two seasons as an assistant coach under Earl Grant, who left Clemson in 2014 to take the head coaching position at College of Charleston.